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Rhino USA has closed a $15 million asset-backed loan facility with Texas Capital to support inventory investment, working capital optimization, and continued expansion across national retail, e-commerce, and international markets.

Navara Technologies has acquired PieQ, an AI-native company focused on agentic workflows and predictive intelligence, expanding Navara’s capabilities across biosecurity, government, insurance, and back-office automation for small and medium-sized businesses.

Dream Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust has priced a C$300 million private placement of senior unsecured debentures as it refinances existing indebtedness and manages the capital structure supporting its global industrial real estate portfolio.

I Squared Capital has opened a new office in Tokyo, expanding the global infrastructure investment firm’s presence in Japan as it targets opportunities across energy, digital infrastructure, and other essential infrastructure sectors.

STA Jets has agreed to acquire International Jet, expanding its private aviation operations into the Rocky Mountain region and adding a long-established base at Centennial Airport near Denver.

Sterling Investment Partners has received a strategic minority investment from PACT Capital Partners, giving the middle-market private equity firm additional capital to support future funds, employee incentives, and investments in its platform.

Zocdoc has acquired Sohar Health, a healthcare technology company focused on automating insurance benefits eligibility checks, marking the first acquisition in Zocdoc's nearly 20-year history.

El Car Wash has entered the Chicago market through the acquisition of four Sparkle Express Car Wash locations, establishing an immediate operating presence in the region and supporting plans to build a network of approximately 50 sites across Chicagoland.

Sidley has expanded its Investment Funds practice with the addition of Justin Solomon as a partner in Los Angeles and co-leader of the firm's Private Equity Funds group alongside John Muno.

Medcotec has raised more than £2.4 million to commercialize Helyx, a single-use powder transfer valve designed to address contamination, blockage, cleaning, and production challenges faced by pharmaceutical manufacturers and other companies handling powdered materials.

Boston Financial has closed Boston Financial Institutional Tax Credits 63 Limited Partnership, a $191 million multi-investor Low-Income Housing Tax Credit fund that will support the creation or preservation of 1,342 affordable rental homes across 12 states.

Just Women’s Sports has acquired women’s sports technology company Victra Sports and launched a new mobile app along with two sport-specific media brands as the company expands its digital platform for women’s sports fans.

Medincell has secured an additional €13.8 million in non-dilutive financing from European commercial banks and Bpifrance, bringing the biopharmaceutical company’s total non-dilutive financing secured since July 2026 to €41.8 million.

Datacor has acquired MySep, a developer of simulation software used for the design and performance analysis of process separators, expanding Datacor’s portfolio of specialized engineering software for process industries.

Suki has secured $90 million in financing as part of its Series E to accelerate growth and expand its artificial intelligence capabilities across clinical, financial, and operational healthcare workflows. The financing includes new investors Healthier Capital, Crosslink Capital, and Hercules Capital, along with participation from all of Suki’s existing institutional investors, including Venrock, Flare Capital Partners, Hedosophia, Philips Ventures, and Zoom Ventures.

Captona has completed a preferred equity investment in partnership with Nexamp to support a multi-state portfolio of community solar and battery storage projects across Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York.

New American Funding has added the Mullinix Mortgage Group, expanding the independent mortgage lender’s presence across North Carolina and South Carolina while bringing one of the region’s highest-producing mortgage professionals and his team onto its platform.

Tiger Finance committed $78 million in new asset-based financing to retail and consumer products companies during the third quarter of 2026, deploying capital across refinancing transactions, growth initiatives, dividend recapitalizations, and supplemental liquidity facilities.

55ip has expanded its unified managed account capabilities for registered investment advisors through an offering featuring investment solutions from J.P. Morgan Asset Management and BlackRock.

Horizon3 has surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, marking a major growth milestone for the cybersecurity company as organizations increase adoption of continuous and autonomous penetration testing.

geoSurge is an AI visibility and data science company that helps organizations understand and improve how their brands are represented across artificial intelligence platforms, including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Its technology combines AI visibility monitoring with a proprietary methodology called Corpus Engineering, which focuses on how AI models learn, understand, and represent brands over time. The company emerged from stealth in December 2025 and has expanded its customer base across four continents, serving industries including financial services, education, and hospitality. Led by Co-Founder and CEO Francisco Vigo, geoSurge is positioning itself around the growing importance of AI-generated answers in brand discovery and purchasing decisions. Pulse 2.0 interviewed geoSurge Co-Founder and CEO Francisco Vigo to learn more about the company's origins, Corpus Engineering technology, approach to AI visibility, recent growth, and long-term plans for the emerging AI representation market.

Masttro has appointed Andrew Peddar as Chief Operating Officer as the wealth technology company expands globally and reports 43% growth in annual recurring revenue over the past 18 months.

Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire customer engagement platform Braze for approximately $5.66 billion in enterprise value, expanding Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud and broader Customer 360 platform with additional real-time customer engagement and AI decisioning capabilities.

Firefly has emerged from stealth with a $20 million Series A led by Definition Capital, with significant participation from BoxGroup and continued backing from Susa Ventures. The financing will support the company’s development of physical AI products designed to modernize safety technology across education, healthcare, and enterprise organizations.

ICG next, a New Jersey-based wealth management firm overseeing about $2.3 billion in client assets, has joined Osaic from LPL Financial as it prepares for its next growth phase.

Altay Therapeutics has raised $37 million in Series A financing to advance DX5057, its investigational oral small-molecule therapy for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, or FSHD, into clinical development. The round was co-led by Sound Bioventures and HealthCap, with participation from new investors Fountain Healthcare Partners, Biogen New Ventures, Pappas Capital, and Global BioAccess Fund.

Harmonic Security has raised an oversubscribed $50 million Series B funding round led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, bringing the workforce AI security company’s total funding to $76 million. Existing investors also participated in the financing. Harmonic plans to use the new capital to accelerate growth, expand its engineering and go-to-market organizations in the United States and United Kingdom, and continue developing technology for securing enterprise use of artificial intelligence.

Ara Partners has reached the final close of Ara Energy Fund I, raising $2.5 billion for its energy investment strategy, including $1.8 billion in fund commitments and more than $700 million in associated co-investment capital.

FormativGroup has acquired Saige Consulting, an AI and technology consulting firm that connects business strategy with emerging technology, expanding FormativGroup’s capabilities in artificial intelligence, data engineering, software development, and technology strategy.

Leonardo DRS has been awarded a three-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a $500 million ceiling from Joint Interagency Task Force 401 to support the rapid delivery of counter-unmanned aircraft system sensing capabilities.